Darkfall Unholy Wars

Darkfall Unholy Wars Halloween Sale. (Free weekend on 30/10 - 1//11)

marketing2 — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:45:59 +0000

It is said that on route home after a night’s drinking, Yrrak the Vile, once king of the orks, encountered Malaut and tricked him into climbing a nearby harvesting tree. The cunning Yrrak etched the sign of Auros into the bark, thus trapping the demon Malaut. The wily but inebriated Yrrak then struck a bargain with the currently treed and highly irate lord of the twilight kingdom ensuring his soul would never be claimed by the dread realm. As every good Ork with a get out of hell, free card, Yrrak then led a grand life of sin, drink, and mendacity, thus being refused entry to the eternal halls upon his death. Gleefully keeping his promise, Malaut also refuses to let Yrrak into the Twilight Kingdom and throws a surging fireball born of the fires of hell at him. Feeling the cold of undeath and limbo settling in his limbs, Yrrak snagged the fiery spell and placed the burning ember into a hollowed out turnip to stop it from going out. Ever since, Yrrak and his flickering lantern have been roaming the dark lands, looking for a place to drown their sorrows.

The tradition associated with All Hallows Eve is carried by guises throughout the holiday in order to frighten away the dark and malevolent spirits. It's pumpkin-selling season, and crowds are flocking to farms to pick out their own jack-o’-lanterns. Will you get yours?

Now in order to get you through the spookiest weekend of the year we’ve acquired a collection of brooms right from the halls of the Sinspire Cathedral. These brooms have dusted the most evil and depraved hallways, undead banquets, and ghoulish gatherings known to the lands of Agon. The dust they have swept is enough to make your skin crawl. Now they come screaming out of the depths of the Cathedral, ready to bare you off to battle into the depths of the night!

Prepare to fight. The world is a dangerous place with abnormal aberrations stalking the shadows. Every month brings a challenge, and this month will be rather…..spooky.

The wind is cold, and the atmosphere is rather eerie.

A strange presence permeates the air of Agon, one that we have not felt before... Villagers noticed some pumpkin movement during the night. Is something yanking our metaphorical chain? Perhaps, perhaps that legend about the jack-o-lanterns is not so crazy, maybe we keep a couple sitting around after all!

Get Darkfall now at 33% off and let’s find out what is really going on in Agon. Also, enjoy our Free weekend, starting from Friday, 30th till Monday, 1st.

Play Darkfall for free in this weekend!

marketing2 — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:45:13 +0000

Greetings Agonians!

We're proud to announce that we've teamed up with ORIGIN PC to bring you a free weekend in Agon!

In case you don't have an account, please register in our AMS in order for your account to be activated when the free weekend is on. If you're a clan leader, please inform your clan members to follow this procedure. Besides, you need your clanmates in order to conquer Agon this weekend!

This offer will be valid for everyone that has an account in our system. Unfortunately, we will not be able to launch it on Steam aswell.

Also, if you need a new keyboard or mouse, be sure to use our coupon code "DFUW" on the ORIGIN store, for a 15% off your purchase!

Sharpen your blades, and prepare for battle!

Patch Notes September 16th

marketing2 — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:10:41 +0000

Greetings,

Today we applied our latest patch. This includes some changes in combat, outposts and economy. Also, we altered our hotbars, for better and easier usage!

Chaos Outposts

Added 2 chaos outposts in Banegorge and Heneldon areas. These outposts are equipped with mastery workstations. Players can enjoy their benefits but at the risk of getting killed by anyone around.

Hotbar enhancements

You are now able to drag+drop skills directly onto your hotbars.
Skills placed on the hotbar (or custom roles window), no longer require “activation”. Instead they enter a 30second default cooldown.

You are now able to cast skills in the right hotbar, using the “Left Action Trigger” Binding (default LMB). You can do this by clearing the “Right action trigger” binding, in the options.

Note that new players will have “right action trigger” cleared by default. These changes are aimed at improving the controls’ learning curve for new players, and Quality of Life for older players.

Also:

Added Blueprint direct selection default keybindings (F1-F10)
Changed default keybindings for hotbar slots related bindings:
Select Radial Slot 1-8 changed from keybind 1-8 to LAlt+1 - LAlt+8
Select Left Radial Slot 1-8 changed from keybind LCtrl+1 - LCtrl+8 to 1-8
Select Right Radial Slot 1-8 changed from keybind LAlt+1 - LAlt+8 to LCtrl+1 - LCtrl+8

Combat Changes

Fireball

Debuff magnitude reduced by about 60%

Virtuous Wrath

Magnitude increased 5%
Holy damage now drains Stamina/Mana for 45% of health damage done (up from 35%).

Bolt Of Bedlam(Spell now serves different purpose/situations)

Magnitude reduced ~15%
Cooldown removed. Faster Casting speed by 30%. Range doubled. Mana cost reduced by 33%
Missile speed slower by 90%

Blizzard

Range increased 50m

Needles

Fixed cooldown/casting time so they are properly reduced.
Ultimates now require 10 ultimate reagents per cast. Ultimate reagents weigh reduced.

Eco changes

Golems: Faster respawn time so you can stay and ‘farm’ the spot, however with more risk at being ambushed.

Leenspar Golem 15% faster respawn time. Rare drops slightly reduced.
Neithal Golem 60% faster respawn time. Rare drops reduced accordingly.
Veilron Golem 75% faster respawn time. Rare drops reduced accordingly.

Increased loot for Theyril/Leenspar/Neithal/Veilron/Selentine chests.

Updated several terror loot tables:

Greater/Lesser Air Elemental
Greater/Lesser Earth Elemental
Greater/Lesser Fire Elemental
Greater/Lesser Ice Elemental
Crypt Guard
Gnoll Butcher
Greater Matayin
Hill Giant Slugger
Khamset Child/Chosen
Malaut Beguiler
Menhir Custodian
Raven standard Officer
Winterbound

Additionally, base materials are heavily distributed to these monsters:

Apple - Forest prophets
Bass - Minor Sarnakh
Black powder - Bandits, Hobgoblins, Malauts, Raven standards
Blueberries - Goblin
Carrot - Kobolds
Cod - Sarnakh
Cotton - Bandits
Crab - Arctic Bear
Egg - Akathar, Windlords
Empty bottle - Darkbrood, Goblins
Fossil - Rockbanger, Stonelord
Lobster - Greater matayin
Meat - Bears, Kobold scrounger
Nacre - Serpentine
Onion - Gnolls
Potato - Goblins
Salmon - Matayin
Seaweed - Bandit Cutthroat
Shells- Salamander
Spices - Wildtribe
Stone - Rockbanger, Stonelord
Strawberries - Centaurs
Swordfish - Vile Sarnakh
Timber - Forest Prophets, Sarnakh, Skeleton archer
Trout - Heielhim
Wildberries - Sadayels

Misc changes

Fixed Bonescale armor attributes/protections.
Removed rust from Sturdy Militant Bow recipe
Changed recipes so that all Common, Sturdy and Superior bows also require a rugged leather.
Camera selection now persists after logout (both melee and ranged)
Fixed a bug where special event keys would not open special event caches
Fixed digging skill not working properly
Improved digging drop probabilities (x5 on all items)

Thank you for reading

Patch Notes September 11th

marketing2 — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:44:19 +0000

New weapon in game: The mighty Tyrantsmight!

Feel like nuking foes/allies/entire cities into oblivion? Look no further than this BFG equivalent of magic staves!

Hitboxes: Reduced prediction effect when character moving ( Hitboxes will be smaller when player is moving compared to before )

Role Skills: Increased number of Role skills in a build to 10 (up from 8). Increased number of common skills in a build to 16.

Heightened Reflexes. Duration reduced to 12 seconds. Spellcasting speed bonus removed. This is supposed to be a archer/melee style buff.
Pulverize: Blind duration halved.
Impale: CD increased by 25% . Casting time added.
Stoic defense: Base duration increased to 7.5 sec (up from 6sec)
Toxic rain: Damage increased by 8%. Range increased by 10meters.

Blizzard: We're attempting to give a unique flavor to this underused spell: Projectile speed reduced by 70% (this is near the same speed as DFO spell 'Confusion') . Damage increased by 30%. Range doubled. This spell can be used to control areas, to make people 'get out of the way' before the spell lands, or risk stay but take significant damage.

Lightning Bolt: Changed to "line" spell that can hit multiple opponents. Screen shake reduced by 33%. Screen shake duration reduced to 2.5 (down from 3.5 sec). Range increased by 25%. Cooldown reduced by 3 seconds.
Dragonbreath: Changed to line spell. Damage increased by 10%
Puncture. Changed to line spell.
Frostbite. Changed to line spell.
Acid Rock: Changed to line spell. Range slightly reduced. Damage reduced by 10%
Exalted sacrifice: Changed to line spell. Healing increased by ~ 10%
(All these changes are to reward better aiming)

Bitterstep: Base CD reduced by 5 sec. Slide duration slightly reduced.

Pummel: Damage increased by 15%. Blind duration halved.

Eye Rot: Blind area halved. Duration reduced by 10%. Intelligence/Dexterity debuffs (effectively) removed. Damage increased by 15%

Evade: Increased distance traveled by ~16%. Now a common skill.
Begone: Now a common skill
Stampede: Base Duration increased to 4 sec (up from 3).
Thunderbolt: Damage reduced by 10%. Casting speed increased by 8%
Attunement to fire: Duration reduced by 10 seconds. Casting speed bonus reduced by 20% (Was giving too large window of opportunity)
Fireball: Now also debuffs target's fire protection.

Needles: Base CD reduced to 10sec (Down from 15). Faster casting speed by 25%
Power attack knives: Poison damage increased by 30% (to match 2-handed power attacks)

Reinforce: Duration Increased to 120 seconds (up from 90). Stamina cost increased to 25 (up from 10)
Spellbane: Duration Increased to 120 seconds (up from 90). Protection bonus reduced by ~3points. Stamina cost increased to 25 (up from 10).

Bastion: Protection bonuses reduced by ~4.6 points at leenspar level. Base Cooldown increased to 6sec.
Primal surge: protection bonuses reduced by ~4.6 points at leenspar level. Base Cooldown increased to 6 sec.
(these skills were rather strong, especially with more slots opening up for selection)

Arrow knockback removed.
Polearm knockback re-introduced.

Trueshot: Mana drain removed. Stamina drain halved. Damage increased by 28%. Cooldown increased by 15%. Range tripled.
This will make it more interesting sniper shot spell and less boring 'stat drain' skill. (Overall stats drained reduced by 30% or ~32 at leenspar level)

Heart of stone. Health given increased by 40%. Mana/Stamina given increased by 20%

Mana leech. Reduced magnitude by 22%

Reduced Stamina Drain caused by lightning damage to 20% (down from 30%) of damage caused. This will effectively reduce Thunderbolt stamina drain by 33%.

Thank you for reading.

Economy Expansion additions and fixes

marketing2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:45:42 +0000

Greetings,

This is a thread containing all the changes/fixes that we applied on our Economy expansion patch. Based on your feedback and suggestions we've managed to fix most of the issues that this patch brought to life. We want to take a moment to thank you for your valuable help as without you, we wouldn't be able to fix most of these issues.

September 3rd

New Weapon in game : Fire Sithra

The Ferrari of swords, this magical weapon deals more damage than a Theyril Polearm and attacks faster than Theyril daggers. Do you have what it takes to get one?

Fixes/Changes:

Fixed Deadly/Vicious Eradan weight capacity (again).
Fixed HUD elements persistence.
Added flash cotton to Gravelord inventory.
Updates on inventories for the following monsters : Davosh, Shorax, Firescourge.
Reduced the crafting cost in fragments for 1handed weapons and shields.
The following spells will now be disabled in dungeons: Begone / Levitate / Havoc Blast.

September 2nd

Fixed DuneShapers that were causing problems with various spawnpoints in the world.
EU server had an issue with patching some files properly(loot tables). This is fixed now.
Fix for Caxtla harvesting nodes.

September 1st

Safe Ζone Harvesting:

Tree capacity reduced to two (2).
Iron node capacity reduced to 5.
Stone capacity reduced to 5.
Scumling rawhide drops reduced.

General fixes:

Slightly reduced output of rare resources from city nodes.
Fixed Silverbirch/Garden so they drop selentine ore (small chance).
Fix for tier3 Eradan reduced weight capacity.
Fix for harvesting mastery progress bar filling up correctly.
Fix for Malaut Dungeon Boss.
Fix for top monsters in the world dropping aged theyril keys.
Small decrease in health/intelligence for Deathless Mage.
Imperator Jabaoth found his sunscreen and will now also spawn in the daytime.
Slight increase in Necroguardian rare loot. Necroguardians will now respawn slightly quicker than before.
Slight reduction in Celestial rare loot drops.
Added selentine ore, and chance for veilron key drops to Junglestomper/Dune Shaper golems.
Added selentine wood, and chance for leenspar key drops to Forestwalkers.
Added chance for veilron key to Gravelord.
Shadowknights will now drop timeless staff fragments (instead of flawless)
Disciple of Malaut will now drop flawless staff fragments (instead of timeless). This was because there are more shadowknight spawns compared to Malaut Disciple spawns in the world.

Slightly increase rawhide drops from Grungroc, Brown Bear.

Housing:

Cottage can now hold 1 guest by default.
House can now hold 2 guests by default.
Villa can now hold 3 guests by default.
Large villa can now hold 4 guests by default.
Keep can now hold 5 guests by default.

August 28th

Golems:

To better arm themselves against the hordes of players trying to farm their rare loot, golems decided to visit the Mage Academy and pick up some magic skills.
They are now able to throw their hands up in the air, and cast spells like they just do not care.

Golem rare loot has also been increased.
Golem melee protections have been reduced. More monsters will have their melee protections reduced in the near future.

Robes:

Fixed the protections stats for Primalist/Elementalist Leenspar Robes. As a result, Widowsilk (Theyril) Robes stats have also been pushed up (buffed).
Fixed the cost for all Primalist/Elementalist rare robes, to better account the number of pieces per set, and they are more equivalent to Metal/Leather armor costs.

General fixes:

Fix for city building requiring aged modules.
Slightly reduced rare tools cost.
Fixed rare wood recipe (again).
Potential fix for "invisible robes" bug.

August 24th

Removed all Neithal+ quality items (including broken items) from Sea Scrapping.
Removed all Neithal+ quality items from village requisitioning. Added a small chance for villages to drop timeless fragments.
Reduced Player-City nodes rare materials output.
Increased speed for all Harvesting masteries. (increase the skill to see a difference)
Increased rare drops from Golems.
Fixed client crashing when opening crafting orders and he didn't have the appropriate skill.
Fixed some armor bugging out the client and not appearing on the model. (if it still occurs let us know)

Increased loot slightly (avoiding knee-jerk buffing) for the following monsters:

Orbs
Elementals
Gorra Dar/ Gorra Slave
Khamset Hand/Slave
Matayins
Duneshapers
Black Knight
Vargashi Warthane

Also,

Reduced durability loss from PvE by 20%
Increased durability loss from PvP by 20%
Fixed some gnoll monsters not spawning/causing server issues

August 20th

There does not seem to be a similar problem for the NA server, however if there is, we are going to rollback NA as well.

Bugs/Fixes:

Fixed client crash on workbench if you had particular crafting orders up.
Deeds now require Construction Mastery level 1, and have 99% chance for success.
Fixed some mobs dropping aged mats, such as aged Cog etc.
Fixed display name that was erroneously showing some new dropped loot as "aged".
Fixed house doors opening/closing.
Fixed construction mastery being available in safe zones, it is now available only in player cities.
Fixed Deathless mage not spawning.
Fixed Raven Standard Veteran/Officer not attacking.
Fixed all problems with mobs that were not reacting/attacking due to having problems with their inventories (their weapons were breaking too fast).
Fixed some remaining gamelogic crashes that caused actions not completing properly such as skinning.
Changed Selentine/veilron clancity clan nodes, now showing as "veilron".
Items in starting bag are no longer aged.

Loot tables:

We included up to selentine broken loot on monster loot tables. These items have a chance to salvage for selentine materials. Selentine will be an 'intermediate' rare item that can also be found from killing mobs. This will improve the loot tables for a lot of monsters, without lowering city value (even the lowest cities drop veilron) or supernodes.
We also included special materials called "fragments" in the top 3 recipes for all weapons. These drop from high level monsters around the map.

PvE/Durability. One note here is that Aged gear durability is much lower than new gear equivalent. For example old dread chest has 24 durability, whilst new dread chest has 96 durability. Also, some monsters have vulnerabilities/immunities to certain types of damage. It will be more profitable if you fought those monsters according to their vulnerabilities, preferably wearing new gear. (Similar to how old gear is now 'bad' for PvP, it is also 'bad' for PvE. )

General fixes:

Celestials are now spawning properly.
Fire Dragon is now spawning properly.
Gorra Slave is now spawning properly.
Maiden of Malaut is now spawning properly.
Slight adjustments on orb inventories. Orbs now have a very small chance to drop their respective rare ore.
Slight adjustment on Khamset hand inventory.
Sword-of-sin raw material drops have been significantly reduced.
Fix for Veiled Magistrate causing UI issues.
Weapon tooltips won't show critical chances anymore..
Fixed the recipe of rare wood.
Spy glasses display the correct usage amount now.

Thank you for reading.

Economy expansion 8/12/2015

marketing2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:29:16 +0000

Greetings citizens of Agon.

The following update is probably the largest in scope and importance to ever hit the Darkfall servers and addresses many of its current issues.

The first and foremost is that it provides reasons for players to go out in the world and play the game actively in order to obtain upgraded items that will give them an edge in combat as well as character progression.

The second, and equally important, is to give meaning to *Full loot* again. Yielding a high level item should make you tremble in excitement when you use it, hurt you when you lose it, and exhilarate you when you find it on someone's dead body.

It addresses the issue of people having “full banks” filled with either resources, gear, or both.
It levels the playing field between old characters and newer characters, especially between those who managed to accumulate wealth from frowned-upon methods, and the hard-working “savers”. Older characters will still have a small starting advantage but those who start playing the game more actively can catch up within days. From a game economy’s perspective, there cannot be a greater time to return to Darkfall than this *economy restart/gold rush* update.
It addresses localization to a great extent. Rare materials will no longer be gained from anywhere in the world but from specific locations that are expected to beheavily contested and fought over. We are trying to achieve conflict through resource inequality. Player Holdings will play a huge role in this and the value of owning one or more will become crucial. Player House value has also increased.
It addresses the complicated recipes required to craft everything.
It makes the environment more dangerous and the PvE encounters quicker but much harder.
It speeds up instant travel which will result in finding fights faster.
It introduces the new inventory system, aimed to improve the QoL of all players, and makes inventory operations faster and more intuitive.
It addresses character advancement through prowess as well as the acquisition of Dominion required by clans to have fun.

Now for the specifics

Essentially we are introducing a new layer of economy above the existing one, i.e. a ‘soft wipe’

Gear Changes

All current weapons and armor are now called “Aged”. All aged armors have 4 less in protections compared to how they were before. All aged weapons also do 4 less damage than before.
Any new armor that is crafted (or dropped) now has +3 in each protection. New weapons also do +3 damage than before.

Example: A player using ‘new’ leenspar armor and weapons vs a player using aged leenspar armor and weapons, will do 7 more damage to him, while receiving 7 less damage than before.(e.g Inflict 30 damage, receive 16 damage)
The point is to give players who use the new items a definite, yet not too overpowering, advantage.

Resources

Similar to gear, all current rare materials, as well as base materials are now called ‘Aged’. Ages resources cannot be used in any new crafting recipe, however they can be converted. Most of the Aged materials can be converted at a ratio of 100:1 (100 aged materials + Gold, for 1 new material).
The environment will now only produce ‘new’ resources. New resources are used in the new crafting recipes for gear.

Rare resources

Essences no longer drop from the environment, and are no longer used in crafting recipes. The main rare resource needed to craft high end gear, is now rare ores. Rare ores can be found in selected locations in the world. The ‘best’ place to find one, will be from a Clan City node. Note that all clan city nodes including farm/grove now also have a chance to drop a rare ore.

Only 2 cities in the world will have a chance to produce Theyril Ore: Angfrost and Apautan. The reason for this is that they are probably the least fortified cities which will invite even more city raiding and conflict.

Only 4 cities in the world will have a chance to produce Leenspar Ore: Izkand, Calfardar, Ul Hamra, Elharrat.

You will generally find that Theyril can be found in the North only, and Leenspar can only be found in the “South”.

Only 8 cities in the world will have a chance to produce Neithal Ore: Sweetwater, Alberworth, Caxtla, Tiquiya, Long March, Aradoth, Kvitstain, Andruk.
The remaining cities will produce Veilron/Selentine Ore. Note that the cities that drop Theyril Ore, will also drop the other rare materials. Same goes for Leenspar cities, etc.

We expect this change to increase the value of cities dramatically, and promote conflict, drama, and many dead bodies.

The 2nd best place to get rare ores is by killing the corresponding Golems, that also follow the localization theme of cities (Theyril in the north, Leenspar in the South).
The 3rd best place to get rare ores is by harvesting Supernodes, that follow the same localization theme of Cities and Golems.

Rare ores can also be found in very small quantities in player houses’ deployed gardens/trees, village rewards, and top treasure map/chests.

Gear/Crafting Changes

A new level of armor has been added below the Theyril Rank.
Special materials are now needed for the top 3 armor ranks. These can be found by killing the toughest monsters in the game.
Simplified all crafting recipes, so there are less “steps” involved (no more conversion materials), and the materials needed are not scattered around the world. For example Rank8 metal armor requires Leenspar ingots - Not Leenspar andVeilron.
Inferior materials, as well as refined rare materials no longer drop from the environment, and are not used for any new recipe. (they can be converted)
Reagents now can be crafted in bigger bulks (25 up from 4), making it faster for someone to get to action.
Changed recipes to have their cost better distributed across ranks.
Protections across pieces now more properly reflect their crafting cost.
Secondary attributes across pieces now more properly reflect their crafting cost. (Helmet will no longer give more secondary attribute than chest piece etc)
Leather recipes will now need slightly less leather than before, cotton recipes will require slightly more cotton than before.

Time to gear: What is expected is players in a typical gaming session to be able to craft 1 set of gear at Selentine/Veilron level, and have time to spare to test it on some unfortunate victims. If they want to invest more time into their preparing for battle, there are 3 more tiers to do so. The performance of gear is increased linearly, however the price is increased exponentially.

Harvesting

Harvesting has been reverted to a more semi-afk activity. However, node capacity has been reduced to 40 (down from 50). Node refill rate has also been reduced. This change will promote venturing to distant lands and fight its owners to get their resources.

Durability

Durability loss has been doubled (gear breaks twice as fast).
Durability for new gear has been doubled. This will effectively make old gear exit the game faster.
Durability loss from ganking has been removed, in order to increase the importance of “full loot”.

PvE

In order to make the world a more dangerous place to live in, the damage of all monsters has been increased by about 40% (varies depending on armor level/monster). At the same time health of monsters has been reduced from villains level and above: up to 40% health reduction at monstrosities level, and 50% at horror levels.

Teleportation

Teleportation cost has been changed to gold instead of runes for portal chambers. It now costs 500g per ‘hop’.
Teleportation sickness has been decreased to 10 minutes.
This change is to help players find fights faster.

AoI

AoI bonuses have been doubled, to further promote kingdom building.

Prowess

Diminishing returns for prowess gains have been removed. You will now earn full prowess points from killing any monster if you are a high prowess character.
Prowess gains from crafting and harvesting (feats as well as the action itself) decreased to 1/10.
Prowess gains from PvE increased to 4 times higher than before.

GUI

A new inventory system has been added, with vastly superior functionality and user friendliness. A lot of community suggestions were implemented during the making of this feature.
Vitalstat bars have been removed from the top of the screen, and can be repositioned freely using the “HUD edit mode”.

Map

Fog of war is now more transparent
Made the unexplored markers shown below the fog of war with a ‘?’ marker
Workstations in starting cities now have their own specific icons. This will help locate a desired workstation much faster.

Levy collector

Marker report on tooltip shown at 100% only for non-clan members, otherwise normally when they are updated for clan members

Villages

Capturable every 4 hours. Rewards have been adjusted accordingly.
Requisition rewards have been adjusted so villages produce much less rares materials than before.

Skills

New mining, herb gathering, skinning and logging mastery skills. These are required in order to harvest clan city nodes and use any rare harvesting tool.
New conversion skill that is used for converting old resources to new resources.
Ultimate skills now require an extra reagent.
Reagents have been added to vendors.
Non-mastery tools (pickaxe, wood-axe, sickle, skinner) are no longer usable on nodes that require mastery tools (clan city nodes).
Improved the cooking mastery skill advancement rate.
Digging distance restrictions have been shortened to a few meters from last dig spot.

Housing

Deeds can only be made by crafting (are no longer random drops).
Increased tenants to 10/20 from 4/9.
New painting decorations.

Treasure Maps

Treasure maps can only be found by sea-scrappers.

Feats

Replaced/Removed feats that refer to Aged materials

Selentine shop additions

Added new head wear and weapon skins (Be sure to check out the new Summer Bundle for a discounted price on all of these items)
All themed items are now available in store.
Added dyes.
Added reagents.
Added house decoration items.

In more details:

Bundles

Bundle of Frost Fest Cheer
Arms collector’s bundle
Halloween bag o’ tricks.
NEW: Summer bundle item. Contains: ( Heartbreaker, The Gavel, The Aspect of the Damned, Erodach’s Visage, Minotaur’s Visage and Bonecrew’s Visage)

House decoration items

Fountain
Solar Sphere
Small Golden Spire
Weather Vane
Cupboard
Oak Cupboard
Assorted Flowers
Bench with plants
Flower of arrangement
Potted Palm
Bookshelf
Large Bookshelf
Dragon Pillar
Flame Carrier Statue
Small table and chairs
Oak table and chairs
Bar Counter
Large Bar Counter
Niflheim Carpet
Yssam Carpet
Cairn Carpet
Rubaiyat Carpet
Mounted Badger Head
Mounter Bear Head
Mounted Deer Head
Mounted Goat Head
Mounted Lion Head
Mounted Minotaur Head
Mounted Tiger Head
Mounted Wolf Head

Paintings

In the eyes of nature
Niflheim Homestead
The clearing
Yssam sunset
Fly with me
Lady Grey
The golden talon
The wax dragon
The treeline
Teleportation
A supernode
The salute
Ships
The lighthouse
The earth school
The cathedral

Tapestry

Niflheim Tapestry
Yssam Tapestry
Cairn Tapestry
Rubaiyat Tapestry
Large Niflheim Tapestry
Large Yssam Tapestry
Large Cair Tapestry
Large Rubaiyat Tapestry

Thank you for your continuous support and we're hoping that you will enjoy the patch. This patch is a collective effort from our team, to make the game a more enjoyable place for your endeavors.
We will make sure that this patch will be applied tomorrow by working through the night to ensure its delivery.

Patch Notes March 18th: Combat Changes

marketing2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:08:33 +0000

Greetings Agonians.

Here are the patch notes for today:

Ultimates:

Added Toxic Rain as earth Ultimate: Large Radius (smaller than blizzard), Poison damage (bypasses armor)
Note that: It deals the least amount of damage from any (ultimate) aoe in the game, however it debuffs Infliction Protection (poison/bleeding etc), so that if synced with 2+ players it deals the most damage on medium/heavy armored players.

Salvo: Slow movement debuff removed.
Damaged reduced by ~10%.
Added Piercing debuff penalty (about 6points) while you are under its effect.

Blizzard:
Movement Slow effect removed.
Damage reduced by ~5%
Lightning protection debuff halved.
Added "Ice storm" SFX. This will create a "smokescreen" effect that can serve multiple purposes (for example: concealment while trying to escape)
A screenshot while testing blizzard:

Movement changes:
These changes make movement more fluid and responsive, however there is a 'side-effect' that bunnyhopping needs tighter timing in order to pull off. We expect your overall feedback on this change, however it is something that needs to be given time in order to be evaluated better.

We expect this to affect archery to a degree, but that was the reason the arrow speed/exploit weakness were increased in the first place.

Strafing (top) Speed reduced by 5%.
Note that strafing is much more "instant/responsive" now.

Skill Changes

Attunement to Air: Piercing debuff reduced by ~ 6 points. Mana/Stamina cost halved.
Exploit Weakness: Piercing debuff reduced by ~ 5.5 points. Duration reduced by 2 sec.

Flurry: Piercing debuff reduced by ~3.5 points.
Cone angle halved, in order to promote more skillful play/targetting
Melee slow effect greatly reduced.

Roar:
Cone angle greatly reduced in order to promote more skillful play/targetting (It has same angle as flurry now)

Bastion: Cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds (down from 7.5)
Primal Surge: Cooldown reduced to 3.5 seconds (down from 7.5)
Someone trying to buff his teammates will have an easier time doing so.

Caustic Bolt: Acid debuff increased by ~1 damage. This means you will do 5more damage when having all 5 stacks up.
Battle Rage: No longer consumes your health in order to cast it.
Staff Bolt: Casting time increased by 0.2 sec.
Soul Flay: Added moderate damage effect (To living targets).
Virtuous Wrath: Now castable using 1 handed melee weapons.
Lacerate: Range reduced (still bit longer than polearms)
Roar:
Cone angle greatly reduced in order to promote more skillful play/targeting (It has same angle as flurry now)

Repel:
Cooldown slightly reduced.

Crushing Blow:
Stamina drain slightly reduced.
Blinding effect duration reduced by 1 sec.
No longer slows casting/archery speed.

Mounted Combat:
Damage done by weapons while on mount increased by +10 more points of damage (flat).

Skill stat costs:

Normalized the stat cost requirements in several skills:

Salvo, Stoic Defense, Wall of Righteous Force, Bastion, Primal surge, Repel, Leap, Blizzard, Virtuous Wrath: Stat costs reduced. (in some cases like Salvo, the cost was greatly reduced. This was because it cost almost the same amount of stats as it did damage to a player)

Maelstorm, Power attack, Crushing Bow: Stat costs slightly increased.

Misc:

Spyglass range has been doubled
(sea-scrappers beware!)

Begone no longer damages structures.

Portal Chambers summoning sickness set to 20 minutes per hop.

Thank you for reading!

Patch Notes February 2015 - Darkfall Reload

marketing2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:30:50 +0000

Greetings,

As February comes to an end, we would like to share our patch progress within the community. Based on community's feedback and our team's effort, we can be proud of the content of this patch, which will contain:

Massive changes to combat.
Introduction of clan perks.
Introduction of Leaderboards.
Mount Changes.
Instant travel tweaks.(addition of ports, removal of Chaos Banks)

Below you can find the spicy details.

Combat Changes

A lot of these changes were result of direct feedback from the community as well as several changes that we believe will increase the skill ceiling of the game, as well as making it more fun, without hurting new players.

Ultimate skills:

Spirit Bond : Healing Reduced. Cooldown increased.

Heart of Stone: No longer reflects falling damage. Stat gain slightly reduced.

Static Field: AoE size reduced 1 tier. You will need to be very close to the target.

Barrage: Duration slightly reduced.

Heatstroke: Missile speed increased. Stamina drain increased.

Player Movement

All movement and CC abilities are getting removed/nerfed, in order to make positioning more important. We also added more skillful movement in game:

Dash - Removed, and replaced with Begone skill. Begone is a physics spell that pushes your opponents or yourself forward and can be used for creative play.Begone gives a rather horizontal push, and is castable with any weapon and not just staff.

Attunement to Air: Movement speed bonus removed. Magnitude slightly increased.

Heightened reflexes: Movement speed bonus removed. Longer Duration, Faster CD, Stamina bonus added, Spell casting speed bonus added.

Pulverize: Blind duration reduced. Knockback force reduced. Cooldown increased. Damage increased.

Stampede: Movement speed bonus halved. Duration reduced. Cooldown increased.

Frostbite:Movement slow debuff removed. Duration (for the lightning debuff/slow debuff) slightly increased

Tornado: Knockback force greatly reduced.

Watery Grave: Physics pull removed. Damage increased. Also, while inside Watery Grave, your breath bar becomes 0 (and you take breathing damage IF you are submerged underwater).

Seizure: Range increased by 3 meters, Cooldown reduced by 2 seconds.

Repel: Knockback force reduced. Now a cone instead of 360 aoe.

Pummel: Slow movement debuff removed. Damage slightly increased. Blind duration slightly increased.

Other skills:

Attunement to earth: Duration halved. Now gives 2 stacks down from 3

Lunge: No longer instant spell - Small casting time added.

Vampiric Strike: Cooldown increased.

Maelstrom: Faster animation (similar to Pulverize). Damage increased.

Roar: Also silences target for 3 seconds.

Thunderbolt: Damage slightly increased.

Caustic bolt: Damage slightly increased. Duration slightly increased (so it's easier to stack its effect)

Fireball: Damage increased.

Attunement to Fire: Duration moderately reduced.

Soul Flay: Secondary "link" effect removed. Casting time reduced. Debuff timer reduced (ganks faster)

Rescuscitate: Casting time reduced. Debuff timer reduced (revives faster)

Invigoration: Mana net gain greatly increased. Note that this skill is no longer increasing regeneration, but working as a "mana potion" instead.

Bitterstep : Cooldown slightly increased. Sliding effect magnitude slightly reduced.

Foebringer: Aoe Radius reduced by 1 tier.

Bandage: Now heals over time instead of instantly. Magnitude slightly reduced.

Exploit weakness: magnitude increased (No debuffs more than Flurry).

Healing blast: Cooldown increased. Mana cost reduced.

Havoc Blast: Potency increase. (Now similar to the old Stormblast spell)

Performance

Wall of Righteous Force No longer creates collision that blocks projectiles. Now gives whoever is inside the wall, a "Mana Shield" buff, that can also last slightly after leaving the wall.

Tectonic Shift Is removed from the game. A new skill will take its place in an upcoming patch.

Movement and archery:
Archery missile speed increased, in anticipation of the upcoming player movement tweaks.

Guard Towers
Guard tower rate of fire halved (they will fire 2 times slower).
Guard tower damage reduced by 10%
(Overall DPS reduced by 55%)

Hitboxes:
Slight tweaks to hitboxes for when player is on the move in order to lessen the 'missed when it should have hit' moments. This is an attempt to partially fix/aleviate the "hitbox issue"

Common skills:
Added Levitate skill (The old Telekenesis spell). Summons a column of air that pushes any characters inside, upwards.

Mounted Combat:
Mounts can now attack while moving.

(Under)Water combat:
All role/common skills except Ultimates are now allowed underwater as well as while swimming on the surface. We feel comfortable allowing this change going in game, and we also feel comfortable reverting it if any serious problem arises.

Regeneration

Player Regeneration slightly reduced - To address TTK

All Transfer Spells cost reduced. This will increase the net gains by 3 points per transfer, or approximately 20%. This will promote more skillful stat management.

Changing Roles
Cooldown for changing role removed. (In anticipation for our new UI/Skill selection that will have skills instantly "activated" when you drag them on your hotbars.)

Changing role will now take 20 seconds, down from 30.

Clan Perks

The new Clan Perk system has been added in 16 from the 20 hamlets.

The new Clan Perk system has been added in 16 from the 20 hamlets.
Each hamlet has a unique perk.
Perks are activated through a separate window in your clan management window.
Perks require a good amount of dominion per hour in order to be activated.
Clans pay the whole amount when they activate the perk.
The perk affects all clan members.
If the hamlet that holds a perk is lost, the perk de-activates immediately and the dominion that was paid is lost.
Clan Perks are persistent and are not affected by server shut-downs.
A player that leaves a clan that has an active perk, loses the benefits of that perk.
A player that enters a clan that has an active perk, immediately gains the benefits of the perk.

Leaderboards

While the leaderboard-ranking system is not fully implemented in this patch, we have added the 1st Statistic tab regarding lifetime kills per server. Anyone playing will be able to see Top lifetime PvP killers as well:

Yesterday’s kills.
Current week’s kills.
Past week’s kills.
Lifetime kills.

Additionally one will be able to fetch the above information on other players.

Later on we will add the additional tabs including:

PVP ranks, resettable per week based on weekly PvP activity, calculated by weekly pvp rating
PvP rating, a statistic tab regarding PvP rating, with features similar to lifetime kills.
PvP Season standing, where players based on their weekly ranks will earn points. The top players at the end of the season will be rewarded with unique items.

Are you ready for fun and brag?

Mount Changes

WARNING: For now, Mount skins will convert your mount to its default values.

Eradans excel at speed but fall behind at health.

Stats Default Values Eradan Feral Eradan Vicious Eradan Deadly Eradan
Speed 7.5 8 8.2 8.4 8.8
Health 400 400 350 325 250
Attack Damage 50 50 50 50 50
Weight Capacity 350 350 350 350 350

Death Pigs excel at health but fall behind at damage.

Stats	Default Values	Death Pig	Steedfast Death Pig	Stoic Death Pig	Zealous Death Pig
Speed	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5
Health	400	550	700	1000	1600
Attack Damage	50	50	45	40	30
Weight Capacity	350	350	350	350	350

Tribeland Bears excel at damage but fall behind at weight capacity.

Stats	Default Values	Tribeland Bear	Hearty Tribeland Bear	Venerable Tribeland Bear	Patriarch Tribeland Bear
Speed	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5	7.5
Health	400	400	400	400	400
Attack Damage	50	75	100	125	150
Weight Capacity	350	350	300	250	200

Garmirs excel at weight capacity but fall behind at speed.

Stats Default Values Garmir Strong Garmir Sturdy Garmir Atlas Garmir
Speed 7.5 7.5 7.38 7.27 7.05
Health 400 400 400 400 400
Attack Damage 50 50 50 50 50
Weight Capacity 350 450 550 750 1150

Riding a mount requires a certain level of riding skill (available to all - under the General Skills category) according to its tier
(Base tier mounts don’t have any requirements)

Instant Travel Updates

Portal Shards are now used as the basic ingredient for crafting Portal Runes.
Portal Runes are used with Portal Chambers. Teleporting via a Portal Chamber incurs a 1 hour Teleportation Sickness debuff.
Runestones are now craftable only.
Teleport Runes require a new material, Teleportation Dust, in order to be used.
Teleportation Dust drops from some high end mobs.
Summon Shard is a new craftable item that has Teleportation Dust as an ingredient and is required for Summon Friend to be used.

Harvesting Updates

Harvesting skills have been changed.

Harvesting skills have been changed.
At level 1 harvest time is 12 sec.
At level 100 harvest time is 2.5 sec
At level 1 stamina consumption is 0.4/sec
At level 100 stamina consumption is 1.2/sec
City harvesting nodes have reduced capacities and greater refill times.
House harvesting nodes (The Silver Birch and the Herb Garden) have improved capacities and drops
Outdoor harvesting nodes have smaller capacities and greater refill times.

UI Updates and Fixes

Fixed color of whisper channel to purple (for new chat tabs - existing tabs must be reconfigured) .
Fixed the layout of the mentor window.
On the map search window, the focus is set to the input text field, when the window is opened.
Removed the animation around the markers that are found through the search map window, as they were consuming too much FPS.
Changed the way the party member names are drawn around party member markers.
Fixed the map scroll / split menu bug.
Added the resource name required for teleportation in the teleportation chambers tooltip.
Fixed the initial positioning of the advisory, tracker and events windows.
Removed the starting feats from the suggested feats, since they are auto-tracked.
Added colors and improved the presentation of the Advisory Window slides.
Fixed opening of crafting window after accessing a workstation.
New button added that will immediately purchase an increase of your skill to 100.

General Updates and Fixes

Added Advisor Slides and revamped the Advisor system to display enriched text formats.
Made the feat filters persistent.
Some feat counters were not updating correctly and some feats did not complete although their prerequisite steps were completed. This is fixed in this patch. Every affected character's GUI will be updated to reflect each feat's state - counters will show the correct value and prowess will be awarded if the feat was in fact completed.

World Changes and Updates

Ports have been added around Agon. Mastery ships, as well as sea scrappers and trawlers, can only be can be spawned and despawned while in a port's vicinity.

Removed 18 Chaos banks from Agon Chaos and NPC Outposts

Chaos Outposts

Frostwater
Jammad
Loriedain
Eyrkla's Shadow
Roendel
Irrarat
Eredras
Verthandir
Vargnakke
Velmuna
Thorndale
Sulsar
Oxul
Sandstone
Shadowbourne
Elkar
Quica
Simiran

NPC Outposts

Caldcote
Lainstone
Chilbourne
Hardruk
Bakathuk
Dragrenoth
Evigvanger
Mjoldenar
Gyldendard
Wolfdale
Moon Plains
Neithstone Reach
Moradar
Mir Gelien
Iriendir
Ahu Ishtra
Aifer
Daemesh.

Thank you for reading.

Patch Anouncement

marketing2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:30:19 +0000

There has been already a discussion in forum regarding next patch and upcoming updates.
We are in position to verify these implementations to Darkfall, coming last week of February and we hope you will love them as much as we do.

Clan Perks

We will be introducing a clan perks system based on our original player perks. These perks will be distributed to Hamlets all around Agon. Thus, clans will be able to invest dominion, a much underused currency to enable their clannies to take advantage of said perks.

Each holding will unlock a unique perk, and multiple perks can be used at the same time by the owning clan. We expect holding value to increase after this change, which in turn will drive more conflict especially around the holdings that unlock the most valuable perks.

There will be some overlap with the relics system and as such clans will be able to offset some of their disadvantage of not owing a specific holding with a relic.

Instant Travel

Instant travel makes the world feel less populated since players can and will avoid to their advantage other encounters, or congregate massively and instantly to places of action.
Removing the easily available Summon Friend capacity, as well as rune stones, will increase player movement out in the world, and give more meaning to travelling-faster-on-roads, risk-reward mechanism.

In the same vein, teleportation will become more expensive and only possible via the stationary portals scattered around the world.

Note that "Summon Apprentice" will still be available.

The existing materials used in teleportation (portal shards, rune stones) will now become ingredients in a recipe for a “Teleportation Rune” to be used as the necessary material to activate the portal.

We will also incur a 30 min teleportation sickness buff so as players cannot abuse portals hoping around Agon if rich enough to do so.

Mount Changes

Mounts currently have no variation, serve the same purpose, and cost the same. We will differentiate existing mounts by introducing different advantages and disadvantages, different costs, different recipes and different mount tiers for each of the mount types.

Attributes that will be changed include health, attack damage, speed and carrying capacity.
Note that for higher mount tiers, for every attribute with increased value, there will be an attribute that will have a lower than average value.

Dynamic Events

The Christmas event was a glimpse of what would follow regarding dynamic events. With this addition, random events will happen 24/7 in the world of Agon. Random tiered monster will be buffed with loot while the event is running. Once a number of these monster is killed, bosses will be spawned and markers will be placed in the map so players can track them. Rest assured this is only the beginning and we are going to build up more on this.
We will be in position to elaborate more on this in the following days.

Leaderboards

We've have informed you previous weeks regarding the addition of a Leaderboard system. You can read more about the design of the system here.

Combat

We constantly monitor skills and their impact in-game. We are going to focus tweaking some abilities, fixing some exploits and bring some new gameplay elements into the game. Specifics will follow the closer we get to patch day.

Thank you for reading.

Patch Notes February 2015 - Advisory System

marketing2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:37:51 +0000

Greetings,

Today we're applying our newest patch. This patch includes some visual updates, gameplay fixes and our new Advisory system. More info:

Advisory System

A new active help system aimed at providing information about specific game features and interactions, when they are most needed. The system is designed to be non intrusive as it does not require player action to be closed and the available information can be accessed beforehand, at the time it is presented, or after the fact, at the player’s leisure.

Basic information is on the system, with more entries being added with each patch until all gameplay aspects are covered.

Economy

Certain materials have been redistributed to achieve better localization.

Ranked refined materials (wood, ingot, cloth, leather) drop from the ranked golem in specific spawns.
Ranked base materials (timber, ore, cotton, rawhide) drop from the ranked orbs in specific spawns.

Maps now drop only gold and deeds.

Additionally, base materials are heavily distributed to these monsters:

Apple - Forest prophets
Bass - Minor Sarnakh
Black powder - Bandits, Hobgoblins, Malauts, Raven standards
Blueberries - Goblin
Carrot - Kobolds
Cod - Sarnakh
Cotton - Bandits
Crab - Arctic Bear
Egg - Akathar, Windlords
Empty bottle - Darkbrood, Goblins
Fossil - Rockbanger, Stonelord
Inferior cotton - Zombie shambler
Inferior iron ore - Goblin Scout
Inferior rawhide - Bears, Hivekin
Inferior timber - Brittle skeleton
Iron ore - Hobgoblins, Goblin Warlords, Kobold Strongman
Lobster - Greater matayin
Meat - Bears, Kobold scrounger
Nacre - Serpentine
Onion - Gnolls
Portal shards - All Elementals and light distribution on Shadow Knight, Troll Shaman, Deathless Mage
Potato - Goblins
Rawhide - Bear, Gnolls (Note that Rawhide is also available by skinning several monsters)
Salmon - Matayin
Seaweed - Bandit Cutthroat
Shells- Salamander
Spices - Wildtribe
Stone - Rockbanger, Stonelord
Strawberries - Centaurs
Swordfish - Vile Sarnakh
Timber - Forest Prophets, Sarnakh, Skeleton archer
Trout - Heielhim
Wildberries - Sadayels

Gameplay Changes

Potential fix for skills' interruption while casting.
Adjusted damage magnitude of “Snowball” to not affect some player skills incorrectly.
The Immolator’s health, stamina, and mana buff is now “split” between the number of current Immolators in the game.
The seas have had their danger zones “repainted”. Most of the sea is now danger zone 3. Various patches have been designated as danger zone 5. Narrow “Waterways” that connect those areas are also danger zone 5.
In order to start the requisitioning process players now need to have at least 1 globule of greed on them (even if you control the Relic of Greed).
Sprinting will now slightly alter the Field of View - added sfx while sprinting(This feature can be disabled/enabled via the options menu).
This feature can be disabled/enabled via the options menu.
The hitboxes of Duneshaper mob are now fixed.

UI Changes

When targeting a monster, you will now be able to see its rank.
Fixed the minimum size of chat windows so that the window buttons are always fully visible.
Updated the chat window input channel selection; each tab remembers the selected input channel.

Visual Updates

The Immolator Buff will force a Visual Armor on the Player in order to stand out and be graphically distinctive.
Revamped Pine Trees for the Mercian Area. The rest of the world will be populated as we go with these new trees in later patches.
Brushed up the Chaldean Prop Set.

Thank you for reading.

Stats	Default Values	Eradan	Feral Eradan	Vicious Eradan	Deadly Eradan
Speed	7.5	8	8.2	8.4	8.8
Health	400	400	350	325	250
Attack Damage	50	50	50	50	50
Weight Capacity	350	350	350	350	350

Stats	Default Values	Garmir	Strong Garmir	Sturdy Garmir	Atlas Garmir
Speed	7.5	7.5	7.38	7.27	7.05
Health	400	400	400	400	400
Attack Damage	50	50	50	50	50
Weight Capacity	350	450	550	750	1150